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Site of "The Absinthe Murders"
Site of "The Absinthe Murders"A tiny rural community in Switzerland was home to one of history's most shocking murders, and led to the banning of Absinthe for nearly a centuryAbsinthe has always been a...
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Airtight Bridge
Airtight BridgeThe legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.By all obvious appearances it is a quiet, metal bridge over the modest Embarras River. Listed...
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Kaspar Hauser Monument
Kaspar Hauser MonumentThe "feral child" who appeared in Bavaria in the 19th century remains as much a mystery as his unsolved murderThe mysterious Kaspar Hauser turned up on the streets of Nuremberg in...
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Burke & Hare Murder Dolls
Burke & Hare Murder DollsTiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy MurdersJust a few years after the “Anatomy Murderers” Burke and Hare were apprehended in Edinburgh, two boys...
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Austin Moonlight Towers
Austin Moonlight TowersTurning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer"The baying of bloodhounds frantically seeking the killer's scent broke into the usual chorus of Yuletide...
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Mayerling Lodge
Mayerling LodgeSite of the 1889 murder-suicide of crown prince Rudolf and his lover Mary VetseraFor reasons that have never been entirely understood, sometime during the night of January 29, 1889 crown...
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Clutter Family Home
Clutter Family HomeScene of brutal murders that inspired Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"In their two-story brick home at the end of Oak Street in the rural town of Holcomb, Kan., Herb and Bonnie...
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Smuttynose Island
Smuttynose IslandScene of the grisly murder of two Norwegian women in 1873Six miles off the coast of New Hampshire, but actually belonging to the state of Maine, Smuttynose Island is one of the Isles...
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Catherine de Medici's Chamber of Secrets
Catherine de Medici's Chamber of SecretsHundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work roomFor generations, the room full of tiny cabinets at the famous Chateau...
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The Crystal Maiden of the Actun Tunichil Muknal Cave
The Crystal Maiden of the Actun Tunichil Muknal CaveBelize cave containing the sparkling, calcite covered skeletons of Mayan children, sacrificed to the rain godThe skeleton of an eighteen year old...
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation
Garden of Cosmic SpeculationThirty-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physicsSnail-shaped grass mounds, twisting DNA helix sculptures and undulating waves of rhododendrons make up The...
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The World's Largest Garden Gnome
The World's Largest Garden Gnome"Gnome Chomsky" holds the Guinness World Record for Largest Garden Gnome, standing at 13 feet 6 inches Artist Maria Reidelbach's 2006/07 project, "Gnome on the Grange",...
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Pearl Fryar's Topiary Garden
Pearl Fryar's Topiary Garden Extraordinary topiary garden built by one man in a small South Carolina townVisitors come from all over the planet come to the small town of Bishopville, South Carolina...
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Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese GardenTraditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of VancouverHidden behind a low white building in the middle of Vancouver's Chinatown is the Dr. Sun...
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Glendurgan Garden Maze
Glendurgan Garden MazeThe twists and turns of this serpentine maze are over 170 years old.In its earliest beginnings in the 1820s, Glendurgan Gardens was thoughtfully laid out to sustain its design for...
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Brigits Celtic Garden
Brigits Celtic GardenThe world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre gardenThemed on the Celtic seasonal festivals, Brigit's Garden is widely regarded as one of the...
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Eram Garden
Eram GardenNamed after a legendary garden called Eram in southern Arabia, built by order of Shaddad, an Arab king who wanted to compete with Paradise.Eram Garden (Bagh-e Eram), located along the...
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Japanese War Cemetery and Garden
Japanese War Cemetery and GardenFinal resting place for hundreds of prisoners of warDesigned by Ken Nakajima, a world-renowned designer of Japanese gardens at the time of its construction, the Japanese...
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Curitiba Botanical Gardens
Curitiba Botanical GardensSolitary monument dedicated to the beauty of natureThe Curitiba Botanical Gardens look like something out of a lost age. Constructed in 1991 to resemble French royal gardens,...
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Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens
Sydney's Royal Botanic GardensCome for the flowers, stay for the bats!Tens of thousands of flying foxes (a cat-size version of the fruit bat) have set up camp in the central Sydney Royal Botanic...
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